Ambal's Amusings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

One of the many goals of B2B marketing is to continuously forge better customer relationship. We have invited B2B Experts to shed light on the following question: " What is your one tip on how B2B marketers should forge customer relationships by providing compelling content? Forrester Blog for Interactive Marketing Professionals.

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Ambal's Amusings

JULY 22, 2010

Blog Marketing Interactions Twitter Ardath421. She empowers her clients to create customer-centric nurturing programs that leverage strategic story development to engage prospects until they are sales ready. An example of a tactical objective: Post to Twitter, a minimum of two tweets, three times per day with a collaboration focus.

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Ambal's Amusings

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Blog Marketing Interactions Twitter Ardath421. She empowers her clients to create customer-centric nurturing programs that leverage strategic story development to engage prospects until they are sales ready. Ask your customers where they go online to find useful information – perhaps even how they found you. Ardath Albee.

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Ambal's Amusings

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Blog Marketing Interactions Twitter Ardath421. She empowers her clients to create customer-centric nurturing programs that leverage strategic story development to engage prospects until they are sales ready. Blog Modern B2B Marketing Twitter Marketo InboundMarketer. Forrester Blog for Interactive Marketing Professionals.

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Online Marketing Institute

MARCH 13, 2011

Applications such as Salesforce.com already let sales staff keep track of existing customers or potential customers, but Demandbase Stream falls into a newer category of tools designed to help them find new customers in the first place. Detailed information is vital for spotting potential customers.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

How do you shift the focus from you or your company to your prospects and customers? Customize them to suit your particular product line, which makes it much easier to specify and buy your valves. Your own engineers, technical and R & D team members are great resources for generating fresh content that is more customer-focused.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Both seek to keep your brand top-of-mind with customers and prospects, communicating in a relevant, timely way that ideally is measurable and testable. “Should we be on Twitter, or Facebook, or Linkedin, or YouTube, or some other places?&# Flowtown gives you the answer in seconds.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Tired of chasing shiny objects, and setting up Twitter and Facebook accounts with clear direction, or success metrics? Using the Forrester Social Technographics Ladder, understand how your target audience (as defined by gender, age, and geography) uses social media. Fink) Twitter Comment As always, great stuff.

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Ambal's Amusings

JANUARY 21, 2010

Blog Marketing Interactions Twitter Ardath421. She empowers her clients to create customer-centric nurturing programs that leverage strategic story development to engage prospects until they are sales ready. Blog B2BContentMarketing Twitter SeamusWalsh. Forrester Blog for Interactive Marketing Professionals. Ardath Albee.

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Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Using social media to build event attendance Most larger events have their own web site and most smaller events have a least a landing page with registration (and hopefully those include social sharing functionality), but very few take advantage of the event capabilities of several social media channels or services.

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Ambal's Amusings

MARCH 18, 2010

Blog Marketing Interactions Twitter Ardath421. She empowers her clients to create customer-centric nurturing programs that leverage strategic story development to engage prospects until they are sales ready. Joe Pulizzi and Jonathan Kran z published The Content Marketing Playbook: 42 Ways to Connect with Customers. Ardath Albee.

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Ambal's Amusings

AUGUST 27, 2010

Blog Marketing Interactions Twitter Ardath421. She empowers her clients to create customer-centric nurturing programs that leverage strategic story development to engage prospects until they are sales ready. Blog Webbiquity Twitter TomPick. Forrester Blog for Interactive Marketing Professionals. Ardath Albee.

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Online Marketing Institute

AUGUST 14, 2011

Important caveat: Social isn’t just for ‘generating leads’ but can be used for many, many things, such as improving customer experience, reducing support costs, and improving products. Revenue is the most needed one now, hence my addressing it here. Revenue is the most needed one now, hence my addressing it here.

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Ambal's Amusings

APRIL 29, 2010

Blog Marketing Interactions Twitter Ardath421. She empowers her clients to create customer-centric nurturing programs that leverage strategic story development to engage prospects until they are sales ready. Blog Writing on the Web Twitter patsiblogsquad. Talk about it on Twitter, FB or LinkedIn. " Ardath Albee.

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Online Marketing Institute

MARCH 24, 2010

This is where the human connection is made… at the point where the company connects with its customers in a meaningful way. Forrester workshop to help B2B marketers integrate social media into marketing strategy [link] 4 hrs ago @ tom_peters You still rock, Tom. Damico Marketing Communications on Facebook What Im Doing. Posting tweet.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Is Your Social Strategy Proactive or Reactive?

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 10, 2011

IT Spending on the Rise, But Executives Remain Economic-Focused A recent IT spending survey from Forrester confirms that 2010 remained a tough year for IT. Although enterprise technology budgets were trending upward, the progression was slight, in 2010 compared with 2009. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

A comprehensive survey (1,753 respondents) released today by Edison Research, paints a fascinating picture of Twitter and its role in America’s social media ecosystem. Twitter is Ubiquitous Like Terrell Owens, Carrie Underwood, and Coke Zero, Twitter is almost universally on the radar of Americans.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Although the desire may be there to pursue improved internal and external customer service improvements via enterprise innovation, most state budgets will remain challenged well into the recovery, yielding a pragmatic, economic-focused CIO. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner. The Forgotten Sales Profess.

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The ROI Guy

JULY 15, 2009

Wednesday, July 15, 2009 VMware launches Realized ROI toolkit, powered by Alinean Provides quantifiable proof to customers of the realized ROI from prior VMware deployments. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner. Forrester: Understand and Drive Outcomes for Sales. The Forgotten Sales Profess.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Spending on IT cloud services will triple in the next 5 years, reaching $42 billion and capturing 25% of IT spending growth in 2012." - IDC Much of the adoption is driven by the promise of what cloud can do to help transform IT services and drive important cap-ex and op-ex cost savings. The Forgotten Sales Profess.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 25, 2010

Here are the highlights: A Colossal Opportunity According to Forrester research, from 2009 – 2014, the average annual growth rate in digital marketing expenditures in the U.S. What other aspects of the marketing services business are likely to grow like that? Get Your Foot in the Door Selling One Service.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

I emphasized that to remain relevant, agencies must differentiate themselves by providing advanced social media services, not just the basics. Forrester Research shows that from 2009-2014, U.S. Forrester Research shows that from 2009-2014, U.S. Maybe Selena Gomez autographs, or Danica Patrick NASCAR collectibles.

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Ambal's Amusings

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Forrester Blog for Interactive Marketing Professionals. Get Customers. B2B Lead Generation Benchmark Study 2009. Blog Marketing Interactions Twitter Ardath421. She empowers her clients to create customer-centric nurturing programs that leverage strategic story development to engage prospects until they are sales ready.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Yesterday’s Fall 2009 MarketingProfs Digital Marketing World Virtual Conference was the perfect event to prepare for the planning of Q4 marketing programs. It’s your job to be where customers and prospects want you to be.

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The ROI Guy

MAY 6, 2010

New Customers in Q1 2010 Alinean has been selected to develop and power value-based sales and marketing campaigns for Wipro , PGI , CSC , CiRBA , MokaFive , Shoretel , Informatica and OfficeMax. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner. Posted by Tom Pisello at 10:33 AM Email This BlogThis!

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Convince & Convert

JULY 28, 2010

When I discuss this concept with companies, however, too often I hear something in the realm of “we don’t know what to provide our customers that would be helpful.&# You just have to put on your customer glasses for a while and think through all the questions, confusions, and frustrations they may have at each stage.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 10, 2010

Traditional ROI measures fail to take into account the search value of social media engagement, as well as the value of the customer service and product enhancements that social listening and interaction can provide. 8 Excellent Tools to Extract Insights from Twitter Streams by Social Media Today. by HubSpot. by Dave Fleet.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Social Media – according to a study early this year by Forrester Research, 91% of technology b2b decision makers use social media in some form (blogs, video, customer reviews, social networking sites, Twitter, etc.). Share it on StumbleUpon Share this on Technorati Buzz up!

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

You can follow Ron on Twitter or via the Strategic Marketing blog. In Groundswell, two top Forrester analysts described this fundamental change in consumer behavior as "a social trend in which people use technologies to get the things they need from each other, rather than from traditional institutions like corporations.".

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Convince & Convert

MAY 5, 2010

John & Partners , a full-service advertising and public relations firm, based in Jacksonville. Responding to Forrester’s research about the need for agencies to become “connected&# – to be the bridge between brands and their consumers, St. How can I help you?

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 17, 2011

As today’s buyers are empowered by the Internet to do their own research and drive their own purchasing due diligence – engaging sales later than ever, or not at all – easy to use versions of these diagnostic tools need to be on-line, readily available, interactive and personalized to empower self-service research.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

Since labor costs and equivalent outsourced services dominate most IT budgets -- over 56% of IT spending on average -- selecting platforms with lower implementation and ongoing management costs can significantly improve overall IT efficiency. Frugalnomics in Full Effect: Forrester and Gartner. The Forgotten Sales Profess.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Any factors you look for or service you use that I didn’t mention? You can also set up various searches from Google, Twitter, etc and run the RSS feeds from each search through Yahoo Pipes and have the resulting feed delivered to your inbox or RSS reader to monitor ongoing. applications like Facebook, Twitter, Skype, etc.

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The ROI Guy

DECEMBER 14, 2005

As computing infrastructure has moved towards commoditization it still needs to provide a solid infrastructure of service and performance in order for the company to achieve higher goals. These projects should seek to deliver solid service levels while lowering total cost of ownership. Not exactly.

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The Effective Marketer

JULY 5, 2009

She not only customized the course the way she thought it should be delivered but was also able to get the group of 20 or so to interact and dictate the pace. Whatever the guide you use or that you created along the years based on your industry, product, or service make sure everyone is on the same page as to what are the standards.

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Ambal's Amusings

AUGUST 27, 2009

B2B marketers are producing, managing, and distributing marketing content to reach prospects and turn them into customers. Forrester Blog for Interactive Marketing Professionals. Get Customers. B2B Lead Generation Benchmark Study 2009. Blog Marketing Interactions Twitter Ardath421. Get Customers.

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